Mahón and Port Vendres

Mahón or Maó as its known in the local dialect, is the largest city and port of the sec­ond largest island (Minorca) of the Balearic Islands which are part of Spain. It is the sec­ond deep­est nat­ural har­bor in the world at 5km long and 900m wide, with very clear water.

The Carthagini­ans occu­pied the island in 205 BC and named the port after Mago Barca, the brother of Han­ni­bal. In the mid­dle ages Mahon was occu­pied by the Moors. In 1287 it cap­tured by Alfonso III of Aragon who estab­lished the King­dom of Majorca, a vas­sal state to the kingdom

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May 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: cruise, Europe, honeymoon, seabourn | Comments are closed

15 Days remain

With only 15 days remain­ing before our vaca­tion (Inter­na­tional edi­tion) we are get­ting very excited for our trip!

The sense of excite­ment and pure panic are col­lid­ing and result­ing in a flurry of “how much work can I get done”, “how much stuff do we need to buy”, “what’s going on with these cats for a month”, “OMG, we don’t have a cat sit­ter any more!” and so on.

We will be gone for most of the month of May as we fly from Cal­gary to Rome, hop aboard a cruise for 10 days and then hack around France and

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April 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: cruise, Europe, seabourn, Uncategorized, Vacation | Comments are closed